Left-Headedness in Compounds of a Right-Headed Language

This article deals with left-headedness in compounding some dialectal varieties of Greek, a language which is predominantly right-headed. On the basis data stored DComp, database University Patras containing 17,019 entries, I claim that has resulted from interplay endogenous and exogenous factors. Given left-headed compounds appear have been under long-lasting Romance control, since languages are mainly left-headed, contact factor principally responsible for presence left-headedness, seen as pattern-borrowing case, broad sense. Nevertheless, phenomenon was not unknown Ancient Greek compounding, although it applied to much lesser extent than right-headedness. In line view structural transfer possible if there compatibility between contact, also assume old property facilitated formations Greek.